![]() ![]() But the Government is barely interested – The Chancellor did provide an extra £200m for potholes in his Budget but this is such a derisory sum he may as well have poured it into – ahem – a hole in the ground. It is now estimated it would cost £14bn and take 11 years to fix them. ![]() Drivers and cyclists have all had flat tyres and worse to show for it. But it does suggest that the Conservatives have forgotten a prime political rule – that (in the words of Tip O’Neill, the former US Speaker) all politics are local.Īll of us have experienced the dreadful deterioration of our roads. The Green Party’s preferred way of dealing with potholes would, after all, to be an outright ban on cars. Put aside for a moment the irony of this. ![]()
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